Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:40:05 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: rwatson@FreeBSD.org (Robert Watson) Cc: nyan@FreeBSD.org (Takahashi Yoshihiro), sos@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc MAKEDEV Message-ID: <200103221540.QAA67077@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010322102513.10372A-100000@fledge.watson.org> from Robert Watson at "Mar 22, 2001 10:30:42 am"
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It seems Robert Watson wrote: > 1) It may be that we need a seperate "MAKEDEV all" for each architecture > > 2) Someone :-) needs to fix ATA to provide the support you need for PC98, > as I keep being assured that WD is marching towards destruction. Well, not much I can do here due to lack of that platform, but I'll be gald to help, however I havn't heard anything about this from the PC98 gang... > It's useful to note that the primary source of problems with AD that I > have observed is overly agressive use of DMA instead of PIO for devices > that don't support it. I wonder if that's something we could be doing > better? This has been solved in -current, as the ata driver now check the ata.ata_dma tunable for wether or not DMA should be used, ie it is settable from the loader before the system boot, its then later settable with atacontrol pr device. It would have benn so much easier if devices told the real deal on wether they support DMA or not... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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